Essential Ingredient

If it’s October, it’s time to make plum pudding. I learned how to make this traditional English Christmas treat in a cooking class in 1977 and I have made it every year since. If I do the math correctly, this is my forty-third year. I can still hear the voice of the cooking instructor, a … Continue reading →

If It’s October…

It must be Plum Pudding time! I make it in October to be ready for Christmas Day. I have done so ever since I took a cooking class from a British woman in San Francisco in 1978. I can clearly hear her voice playing in my head: “You may need a little extra stout, preferably … Continue reading →

Plum Pudding – What is it, anyway?

“We wish you a Merry Christmas, We wish you a Merry Christmas … for the last 35 years, it has been a family tradition to march into a darkened room singing this song while carrying a flaming platter of plum pudding.  Although we are not British, I adopted it some years back when gourmet cooking became … Continue reading →